About Us

Making quality soaps since 1994. 

I have been making soap for about 28 years, and in that time I have made a lot of soap. Probably close to a million pounds from scratch, and all by hand. I had to teach myself how to do it. This was before the internet as we know it today. I had to go to the library, and use the card catalog. I did a lot of R&D, reading, testing, and analyzing. The books were very vague, and hard to understand. I once read that an employee would have to work for a soap company for over 30 years before they were ever taught about the actual soap making. The soap industry was very secretive, still kind of is.  Through a lot of trial and error my skills improved. Honestly it took me a few years before I was making “good” soap. I learned a lot about soap and bathing by reading the history. It was extremely fascinating. For example Queen Isabella of Spain is said to only have bathed twice in her whole life. Once when she was born, and the other on her wedding day. Imagine that!

Soap, which has been around for many centuries, is naturally occurring by mixing fats and oils with an alkaline solution. Detergent is synthetic (artificial) soap, which was created back in the 1920’s in a laboratory. It was created due to a lack of raw soap ingredients.  It’s like comparing butter to margarine. No matter how sophisticated a laboratory is, they can never get margarine to taste like butter. Nothing beats genuine soap.

I do feel detergent has it place in society. Like the dishwasher and in the laundry for example.  It generally has a neutral pH of 7 like water. So what is all the fuss about antibacterial soap? Glad you asked. The soap industry is not really regulated so that means manufacturers can say pretty much whatever they want. A true bar soap is antibacterial all by itself, because of its 9.5pH*. Antibacterial liquid soap is not soap but a liquid detergent. Since it is neutral, pH balanced, it does not kill germs. These manufacturers add antibacterial agent to kill the
germs, and then call it antibacterial soap. It is not soap. What it really should read is Antibacterial Detergent. That's marketing for you! Not to mention all the preservatives they have to add so the water in the bottle doesn’t start growing bacteria. Also if it is a Beauty Bar it is not soap, but a detergent cake. A genuine old fashioned soap bar naturally kills germs. The CDC says  “Clean your hands often by washing them with soap and water for at least 20 seconds” I would add make sure you lather your hands for at least 20 seconds with a genuine bar of soap. 

*What does pH stand for?
A. pH is short for Positively Charged Hydrogen Ion, or Power of Hydrogen. It is a scale used to measure the acidity or alkalinity of a product. Water has a pH of 7 and is considered neutral. Soap is about 9.5 and is alkaline. Lemons have a pH of about 2.4 and are considered acidic. On the extreme ends of the chart you have Hydrochloric Acid at 0.1, and Caustic Soda at 13.9.

Brett Thomas

Founder